{{Notability, date=October 2012

Goal

The overall goal of INDICARE (The INformed DIalogue about Consumer Acceptability of

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Solutions in Europe) was to help to reconcile heterogeneous interests of multiple stakeholders, and to support the emergence of a common European position with regard to consumer and user issues of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions.

eContent

INDICARE responded to the 3rd call, subline 3.3: Management of rights for digital content, of the eContent Programme of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...

, DG Information Society. INDICARE, a so-called Accompanying Measure, was initiated March 2004 and was scheduled for two years (Ref.: EDC - 53042 INDICARE / 28609). eContent was replaced by eContentplus as of 9 March 2005.

Focus

INDICARE addresses problems pointed out in the eContent Work Programme 2003–2004: “There has been little attention to the

consumer A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or uses purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities. ...

side of managing rights. Questions remain open as to the level of

acceptability of rights management solutions.

Interface Interface or interfacing may refer to: Academic journals * ''Interface'' (journal), by the Electrochemical Society * '' Interface, Journal of Applied Linguistics'', now merged with ''ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics'' * '' Int ...

and functionality of systems, as well as policy issues linked to privacy and access to information should be the investigated. The consumer question also involves the easiness of access, the legitimate use of content and business models and the easiness of access for disabled persons” (p. 19). In addition to consumer issues, INDICARE addresses the user side, in particular concerns of creators and small and medium-sized information providers.

Approach

The INDICARE project establishes and maintains an informed dialogue about

and user issues of DRM. Informed dialogue means that discussions will be stimulated and informed by good quality input such as news information and profound analyses (see below). Part of the input will be derived from interdisciplinary in-depth research of the INDICARE partners as well as from knowledge of experts and stakeholders co-operating with INDICARE.

External links

INDICARE website
with all publications

Project Consortium

Karlsruhe, Germany (Project Initiator and Co-ordinator)

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Measurement and Information Systems
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Berlin, Germany Digital rights management